Class Notes September 7 - The statistics you’re allowed...

Psychology 103 Class Notes September 7, 2010 Is heartbreak bad for your health? • It may cause other factors to take effect into that person’s life. o Start smoking o Bad Behavior o Lack/Increase of eating How to run a science • Hypothesis about how world works • Prediction about specific situation • Run experiment and collect data • Analyze results and draw inferences Deductive Logic • All men are mortal. Socrates is a man. Therefore, Socrates is mortal. • But science is inductive Inductive Logic • Every jub-jub bird I’ve ever seen is purple. o You can never be 100% sure. In inductive logic and science, you can’t prove your hypotheses. What makes a good theory? • Fits know data • Predicts new findings • Is falsifiable • Is simple (“parsimonious”) o Parsimony- The use of the simplest or most frugal route of explanation available.

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